Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia E. Rosenzweig | |
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Born | 1958 |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Rutgers University University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Known for | Helped pioneer the study of climate change and agriculture |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Goddard Institute for Space Studies Barnard College Columbia Climate School |
Thesis | Potential effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate change on thermal and water regimes affecting wheat and corn production in the Great Plains (1991) |
Website | www |
Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (
Education and academic career
Rosenzweig attended
She has continued working for NASA, where she has been the head of the Climate Impacts Group since 1993.
She also currently serves as an adjunct professor at Barnard College, where she leads the Climate Impacts research group, and is also an adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University.[8][11][12][13]
Climate research
Rosenzweig has been a leader in the field of food and climate change research since the early 1980s.[14] She has led large-scale interdisciplinary research studies on the impacts of climate change in both rural and urban settings.[13] Her research has shaped how we understand the close relationship between food and climate change, most notably predicting the impacts of the interaction between climate and food systems. Rosenzweig's research has been used by thousands of decision-makers in more than 90 countries in their efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.[15] She is also the founder of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP), a global and interdisciplinary network of over one thousand researchers studying climate and food systems modeling.[16]
Community engagement and advocacy
While at NASA and Columbia's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Rosenzweig has pioneered the study of climate change's impact on agriculture and human cities.[2] She has been involved in numerous working groups attempting to assess and establish plans for managing climate change, including:
- Co-Chair, New York City Panel on Climate Change
- Co-Leader, Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program
- Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCCWorking Group II Fourth Assessment Report ("Observed Changes" chapter)
- Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCCSpecial Report on Climate Change and Land
- Member, IPCCTask Group on Data and Scenarios for Impact and Climate Assessment
- Co-Editor, UCCRN First Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3).
- Panel member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change.
- Co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP)
- On October 20, 2022 Rosenzweig was awarded the World Food Prize.[17]
- Rosenzweig founded the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project in 2010
Publications
An overview of Rosenzweig's research can be obtained at her Google Scholar profile. A complete list of her publications can be obtained from her bibliography on the NASA Goodard Institute for Space Studies website.
- S2CID 4320662.
- C.L. Rosenzweig & M.L. Parry, "Climate Change and Agriculture", 1990
- S2CID 2774470.
- Testimony before Congress, April 17, 2007.
- Rosenzweig, C., C.Z. Mutter, and E.M. Contreras (Eds.), 2021: Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Climate Change and Farming System Planning in Africa and South Asia: AgMIP Stakeholder-driven Research. Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation, Vol. 5. World Scientific, doi:10.1142/q0259.
- Rosenzweig, C., M. Parry, and M. De Mel (Eds.), 2022: Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Lectures in Climate Change, Vol. 2. World Scientific, doi:10.1142/12312.
Awards
- Guggenheim Fellow[7]
- GSFC Honor Award - Science (2011)[18]
- GISS Best Publication Award (2009)[18]
- GSFC Honor Award - Earth Science Achievement (2007)[18]
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006)[19]
- Named as one of Nature's 10: Ten People Who Mattered in 2012" by the journal Nature[6]
- World Food Prize (2022)[17][20]
References
- ^ "Dr. Cynthia Ropes Rosenzweig - Directory - The Earth Institute - Columbia University". www.earth.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ^ a b Justin Gillis, "A Warming Planet Struggles to Feed Itself", The New York Times, June 5, 2011.
- PMID 23257862.
- ^ "Cynthia Rosenzweig's research works | Columbia University, NY (CU) and other places". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ^ "People | Cynthia Rosenzweig | The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University". heymancenter.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ^ PMID 23257862.
- ^ NASA GISS(last visited Aug. 15, 2012).
- ^ a b "NASA GISS: Cynthia Rosenzweig". GISS Personnel Directory. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
- ^ "An Interview with Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA – Q&A with Anna Lappé", Take a Bite Out of Climate Change, Sept. 2008
- ^ "NASA Climate Change 'Peacemakers' Aided Nobel Effort", NASA Press Release, Dec. 17, 2007.
- ^ "Cynthia Rosenzweig | Barnard College". barnard.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ^ "Global Management Team – Urban Climate Change Research Network". uccrn.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ^ a b "5 Questions With … NASA Scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig". Barnard College. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
- ^ globalreach.com, Global Reach Internet Productions, LLC-Ames, IA-. "2022 Rosenzweig - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World". www.worldfoodprize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ globalreach.com, Global Reach Internet Productions, LLC-Ames, IA-. "2022 Rosenzweig - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World". www.worldfoodprize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ globalreach.com, Global Reach Internet Productions, LLC-Ames, IA-. "2022 Rosenzweig - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World". www.worldfoodprize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "2022 World Food Prize Awarded to NASA Climate Scientist". World Food Prize Organization. May 5, 2022. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
- ^ a b c NASA (GISS) (2011). "Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science".
- ^ "Elected Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- ^ "Nasa climate research scientist awarded World Food prize". The Guardian. 5 May 2022.
Further reading
- "An Interview with Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA – Q&A with Anna Lappé", Take a Bite Out of Climate Change, Sept. 2008 (interview transcript)
- "Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig Talks About Urban Climate Change Solutions at Michigan State University", April 9, 2010 (video)
- "Earth Science: Putting the Puzzle Together" Archived 2020-12-02 at the Wayback Machine (NASA profile of Rosenzweig for children)
- Kristin Jobin, "NASA Scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig", MLive, May 2010